The UK government claims that the proposed high- speed rail linking London with the Midlands will boost productivity and bridge Britain’s social divide. Through the social economic lenses of the Guardian newspaper, Damien Assini’s project speculates what the urban alternatives might have been and suggests a diverse lexicon for a new urban typology.

His proposal celebrates nature and becomes a catalyst for a green economy to revive a lost “Great” Britain. The hypothetical scenario aims to ask questions such as: How could the country function as a spatial and political entity now that Great Britain has voted out of the European Union? Can we speculate a different approach to an economic and social decline by repurposing the land and budget acquired for high- speed rail to suggest a different infrastructure project?